Turn it off and on again

Anyone who works in customer facing IT knows that the iconic comedy show The IT Crowd is like watching your own life played back to you. And sadly, it is surprising how often real life proves that the apparently overblown concepts played out on screen are not that far from the truth.  Asking whether someone has turned it off and on again is a daily occurrence. I have sat in meetings where every team is thanked for a successful IT project except the IT team. Social awkwardness abounds, blank looks adorn the face of business colleagues who just don't grasp technical concepts, and I'm pretty sure that I could convince a lot of people that a simple box holds the secrets of the internet (and a whole lot of other things).  They call the latest generation technology natives. But for those that came before, there are still huge gaps in the understanding of technology for many people. Technology is magic, the modern equivalent of wizardry. It seems so easy, just click a button, dra...

It's always good to have some context right? I mean, why would you bother to read on without an idea of who it is that's waffling on. So lets get started. So who am I?  Well, there's the easy stuff - 30-something straight woman, living and working in the Australian capital, good job, mortgage, great group of friends.  And the rest?  Well I work in IT - a tough gig with constant change, and still a challenging place for women to work.  I'm on my own - Australia is a big place, and I took a great job opportunity that was a ling way from home. In 15 years I've never lived closer than 1,200 kilometres to my peeps. That's hard at times.  And at times, I struggle to hold it all together.  So what's this blog about? Whatever I want to talk about! Sometimes that's professional stuff, sometimes its something interesting I read about, sometimes its a rant about life in general.